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SubjectRe: [W1] a driver for DS2405 chip
W dniu 01.11.2010 13:35, Jonathan Cameron pisze:
> On 10/28/10 21:52, Maciej Szmigiero wrote:
>> [W1] a driver for DS2405 chip
>>
>> This is a driver for DS2405 1-wire single-channel addressable switch / PIO.
>> DS2405 can also work as single-channel binary remote sensor.
> Perhaps handle this as a gpio chip? (be it a fairly limited one)
> To my mind it would make it more generally useful...

I think the GPIO infrastructure is meant for on-system GPIOs, where 1-wire devices are mostly
used for remote data acquisition.
That's probably why w1_therm (for 1-wire thermometers) is not integrated with HWMON subsystem.

Maciej Szmigiero


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